Certain words and phrases ("watch over," "lost soul," "sad case," "vacant possession," "crossing a line") begin to recur, deftly creating links and echoes of association.
Museum officials had been puzzled by a portion of the inscription of the sarcophagus, a coffin probably used by the Egyptians to act as a substitute body and repository for the soul in case the real body was damaged.
Even if happiness is virtuous activity of the soul, in some cases these goods are needed to be virtuous — for example, one must have money to be generous.
The particular is assumed to be a combination of matter and form-copies (and in some cases, soul).
Their Italian detectives are pensive souls who ponder cases over robust meals in noisy trattorias and refer to Cicero for insights into the human condition.
A dark night of the soul while the case is in progress is soon replaced by his sentimental belief in himself as the injured party, unrepentant to the very end.
Like them, "Wrecks" presents an ostensibly straight-and-narrow soul — in this case, a newly bereaved widower reflecting on his long and happy marriage — whose inner self has at least one nasty twist that emerges in measured installments.
"We are trained to put aside our feelings so we can do what we are trained to do, I've seen people freeze at the sight of their first patient, I've seen EMT's who after graduate never go to the field, but those who do, lose a little of their soul in every case they treat, I've seen myself fade into this sombre shell of a person I am now," he said.
So, unless we are prepared to treat forms in general as capable of existing without their material bases, we should not be inclined to treat souls as exceptional cases.
It has been suggested (for instance, by Snell 1975, 19) that what is referred to as soul in either case is in fact thought of as one and the same thing, something that a person can risk and lose and that, after death, endures as a shade in the underworld.
